Charles Boustany, Jeff Landry spent $7 million on House race

5:26 PM,
Feb. 3, 2013

Reps. Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry spent more than $7 million on the House race.

Written by

Deborah Barfield Berry
Gannett Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - The Republican incumbents who ran against each other in last year's bitter battle for the 3rd Congressional District seat spent more than $7 million on the race, making it perhaps the costliest House contests in Louisiana history, political experts said.

Reps. Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry were on track to spend more than $6 million heading into the Dec. 8 runoff election. Boustany took 60 percent of the vote to win the race.

By the end of December, the lawmakers had spent a combined $7 million, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. ...